Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
My former colleague, Roger Ebert, passed away today. He was a very smart, funny and kind man, with a wicked sense of blue humor. He was receiving medical treatment when I got married, and couldn’t attend our wedding. He and his lovely wife, Chaz, sent us a rug that we dubbed “The Ebert Rug.” He will be missed on so many levels.
When funding ran low for “Better Luck Tomorrow,” filmmaker Justin Lin called on an unlikely resource to help: MC Hammer. Yup. It was Hammer time. “I had met him in Vegas when I was working on the script,” says Lin. “He was really nice and offered to help. I called and said, ‘Hi, remember me?’ He couldn’t have been nicer. He wired me a decent amount of money within two hours.”